An equation for intelligence: Alex Wissner-Gross at TEDxBeaconStreet
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2013
- What is the most intelligent way to behave? Dr. Wissner-Gross explains how the latest research findings in physics, computer science, and animal behavior suggest that the smartest actions -- from the dawn of human tool use all the way up to modern business and financial strategy -- are all driven by the single fundamental principle of keeping future options as open as possible. Consequently, he argues, intelligence itself may be viewed as an engine for maximizing future freedom of action. With broad implications for fields ranging from management and investing to artificial intelligence, Dr. Wissner-Gross's message reveals a profound new connection between intelligence and freedom.
Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an Institute Fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science and as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory.
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Nothing short of brilliant. The most important line imo: "Its not that machines first become intelligent and then megalomaniacal, its quite the opposite: the urge to take control of all possible futures is a more fundamental principle than that of intelligence."
So take a system, model the parts and the interactive rules, increase entropy and goal seeking and intelligent behavior occurs. I don't know about that, but I do know that I can't think of a single example of intelligent behavior that can't accurately be described as an attempt to expand future options at the expense of present options.
Remarkable! I wonder what has happened with Entropica since then...
An interesting line of thinking... Thank you for sharing this.
This was excellent!!! Thank you!!! :)
Tough crowd!
Stunned crowd is more like it. Like the people at the Gettysburg address. (They under-reacted as well.)
I have now spent a term studying Stochastics, and computational neuroscience - and this is indeed a very interesting result, although somewhat obvious. What is unclear however - relative entropy is invariant, but depends on the model parameters which may be incomplete for novel simulations.
Seeking liberty and avoiding constraint may be evidence of intelligence but it also suggests goals and skills. Intelligence is more often associated with awareness of what is happening, a knowledge of the way things work and skill in the choice of actions. Intelligence seems to imply competence.
I think it is incomplete. You need to have secondary theory of mind in order to be emotionally intelligent. If it could analyze its relative degrees of freedom with something else's degrees of freedom it would be like the equation of empathy.
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So.... intelligence = survival instinct? Isn't that essentially what is being said here?
Increase future freedom of action, avoid being cornered, e.g. stay alive.
I like the asteroid example, as it turns out our planets only deflection program is run privately instead of politically. This clearly shows individuals have intelligence far exceeding that of national governments.
Yes!
How do you define the entropy, S_tau?
There has to be more to this though. Just because one has the option of acting a certain way does not guarantee that they will
+Elrawd There is absolutely no reason to think that AGI will, in any way, want to destroy us. They will want to improve themselves, and we will obviously allow that. This is a huge universe. There are many places to go. You have to think outside the box. We are in a box.
+TedTheAtheist what do you mean by agi wants to destroy us? I'm talking about measuring intelligence by the ability to maximize future options.
Intresting. [KISS]
math.mit.edu/~freer/papers/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf
he forgot rule 3 : self-imposed constraints .
Very very savvy. Entropica. (y) (y) (y)
Let me guess, Entropica is a neural net processor, a learning computer?
No, it's complete bullshit is what it is.
"We just gave it a model of a weight on top of a stick, and it just decided to balance it of its own volition!"
My. Fucking. Ass.
That's unlikely, it'd be a program that computes all future possibilities and the longest lasting most option one is the one it chooses; once the ball is on the ground, it has no choice but to stay on the ground, while it's on the stick it has the choice to stay on the stick or fall to the ground, so it chooses to stay with the more options choice of being on the stick.
Well Alex Wissner-Gross just thumbed up my above comment; combined with what he actually said in the video, I take it my statement is a good summary on his Entropica program's implementation :)
Thank you for your summary. Odin is truly proud of his finest creation, Xenogene Gray.
Somebody had to step forward to help the mortals of Midgard since Thor decided to settle down with Jane Foster :P
Maybe intelligent minds far greater than my own can correct me, but referring to your equation as the theory of relativity for intelligence reeks a little of self-aggrandizement and subtracts from the substance of your claim? Am I mistaken?
Isn't this just Maximum Entropy in disguise?
It’s not disguised if you search maximum entropy you’ll see this video in the results
Increase inteagence of people not machines, do we teach the machine or will the machine be teaching us?
+Silver Cloud Transportation Services Machines will be teaching us. We will learn together.
so... an intelligent person would never get married? ... or something that would confine options? I would think 'keeping options open' implies a future choice. If no choice is made, there is no action. I guess i am assuming choices restrict options, but don't they usually?
BaroquenHorse if your marriage confines your options, I feel really bad for you. Seriously. And yeah, choice is a grey area. The second matrix film dove deep into that.
this is just an unfounded assertion dressed with jargon. it's not even an original assertion. Sheldrake and MaKenna put forth this idea 20 years back. they termed it novelty rather then optionality, but the same idea
So was this guy's claim that less asteroids have been striking Earth since the year 2000 based on truth or is it a hypothetical? If it is not hypothetical, does anyone have a source on this information?
www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/news/detecting-and-deflecting-a-killer-asteroid-16084695
Soooo btfl...!
#itoCalculus
Had to watch this video for an english class :/
Ahmed Naga - Haha!😄 For high school?
Had to watch this for psych :/
total lack of scholarship. entirely missing the literature in intrinsic motivation in robotics and AI.
defechrist in a 12 minute talk? With that crowd? Are you kidding me? Do you even know how they run Ted Talks? I can sincerely understand your plight, but seriously c'mon now, this is an education production for learning and enterinment designed for the masses, not college professors working on their second PhD. Go to a university lecture if you want all that.
sneaky nonsense